Guard rail



Jan, 22, 1924 L. M. WENTLING GUARDRAIL Filed Jan. 25, 1923 :lila/vwo@672273@ flrtouwg Patented dan. 22, 1924.

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FOXBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

GUARD RAIL.

.Application fried January 25, i923. serial NQ. 614,312.y

Y To allwhom'z't may mwen/L: Y Y K- Be it known that I, Lnsfrnn M;VVENTLING, a citizen of thevUnited States of America, residing atFoxburg, in A'the county of V Clarion and State yof Pennsylvania, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Guard Rails, of whichthelfollowing is a specification. p Y l The object ofthe invention is toprovide a safety guard railrfor railroad tracks which` is adapted notonly to perform the usual.

function of a guard rail but to serve as a substantial reii'iforcementfor the track rail in the matter of securing' lthe same againstdisplacement or deflection under a track spreadingy strain; furthermoreto provide' a guard rail which 1n connection ywith `a base platesuitablefor seatingthe j track rail is adapted to definitely lock the track railagainst spreading action whilepermitting freedom Gif-longitudinalmovement incidental to variations in length due to changes intemperature, while maintaining a iiXed position of the guard rail inreference to the ties and to the base plates carried thereby; andfurthermore to provide a guard rail which is not open to theobjectionordinarily eX- perienced that the heels of boot-s or shoes ofpedestrians traversing the tracks are subject to being caught betweenthe guard rail and the head of the track rail; and with these objects inview the invention consists in a construction and combination of partsof which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings,wherein r* v Figure l1 is a plan view of a section of a railway trackincluding a guard rail and related parts constructed in accordance withthe invention. Y

Figures 2, 3 and 4 are sectional views respectively on the planesindicated by the.

lines 2 2, 1L- 4t and 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a plan view of one of the bed orbase plates. Y

The guard rail 10 of which the upper edge l1 is arranged in the plane ofthe tread 1.2 of the track rail13 is channeled as indicated at 14 forthe flange of a wheel traversing the tread of the track rail and isprovided with a lateral wing` 15 which-snugly engages and fills thespace betweenthe hea-d and the foot of the track rail so as toconstitute ,an interlocking engagement with the track railserving tobrace the latter substan- `tially throughout its height. The track andguard rails, thus interlockedV under rails permitting of thelongitudinalmovement of the track rail incidental to expansion and contractionthereby by changes in temperature are supported by bed-plates or baseplates 16 secured to the ties 17 andy having depressed seats 18 boundedlaterally byv shoulders 19 formed by terminal enlargements 2O on theplate. The bed plate is secured to the tie by means of spikesengagingvopenings 21 inthe plate, the staggering thereof obviously beingdesignedto minimize the tendency of the spikes tol split the tie, andsupplemented by anadditional spike for which purpose a supplementalopening 22 is formed at the outer end of the plate orat that endwhichris outside ofthe track as an additional security andlwhichispreferably arranged opposite the intervals between the outer andinner spike openings The bed plate 1s further provided- 21. within theseat 18- with openings 23 for the reception of rivets 24 depending` fromthe guard vrail and serving to definitely anchor the latter to the bedplate and therefore to the ties by which the bed plates mutuallysupporting a guard rail are carried. The spike openings 21 are formed inthe shoulders constituting the thickest por- Y tion of the bed plate andbreak into the seat so that the heads-of the spikes which are directedinwardly or toward the rails (to-wit the interlocked track and guardrails) and which `overhang the feet of said rails, may directly bearupon and clamp said bases to the bed plate.

Furthermore the guard rail'is preferably thickened horizontally towardits extremi- .ties and the channel 14 formed therein is correspondinglyflanged so as to present no E terminal interval which is likely toengage 'with a foot or shoe or object approaching outer portion of thebase of the track rail and yet permits the track railfto expandlongitudinally in parallelism with the guard rail without in any wayaffecting or changing the relation of the guard rail relative to thefrog. In practically all devices, the guard rail is fastened to thetrack rail and, furthermore, theguard rails in all other devices do notconform to the fish plate receiving recess of the track rail. In thepresent device, due to the track rail receiving vseat with its opposedterminal shoulders, there is no chance for the track rail 'to lbedisplaced and, therefore, preventing destroying the gauge between thetwo vrails well as preventing 'destroying the gauge between the ball offthe track. rail and the ball ofthe guardrail, the guard rail at alltimesre-A maining ina uniform position relative tothe frog while the'track rail is capable of'eXpansion and contraction longitudinally inparallelism with the guard rail.

'Having'described the invention, what is claimed 'as new and useful isl. ln a v'guard rail, the combination with bed plates provided withdepressed seats in! clu'ding terminal shoulders, of ahtrack railwith'its base engaging the `bottoms of the seats, with one edge of thebase in engagement with corresponding'terminal shoulders at the outerportions of the bed plates, means retaining the euteredges ofthe'base inengagement with the 'outer shoulders, a

guard rail with 4its base lengaging between the inner edge of the'trackrail vand ythe shoulders at the inner ends of the bed plates, andmeansfor retaining the guard rail base in engagement with the inner shouldersand fastening the bed plates to the ties, said guard rail providedwith alateral wingv extending longitudinally thereof and conformingthroughoutits length with .and engagiiw the sh plate receiving recessofthe track rail, thereby retaining ,the track rail in position and yetpermitting it to expand and .contract longitudinally in parallelism withthe guard rail without effecting any change Vof the guard rail'withrelation to a frog adapted to oppose the guard rail. s

2. In a guardrail cnstruction, the, combinationwith bed plates providedwith .depressed seats, 'of a rguard, rail with itsbase engaging:saidfseats .adjacent their terminals atl Lthe infiiei'* ends oftheplates, means for fasteningfthefbase of the lguard railpermanently'to'the 'bed plates, said guard rail having a lateral wingfacing outwardly with itsruppery face ya substantial distance below thelball of theguard rail,4 and a track rail with its basevengaging saidseats, with one sideof its flange conforming to and engaging under saidlateral wing which conforms to and engages with the fish plate receivingrecess of the track rail, whereby thetrac'k rail may expandv andcontract longitudinally in yparallelism with the rail which` remains inuniform position with relation to an opposedffrog. Y

Intestinriony'whereof I my signature,

` LESTERMJWENTLIN

